Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Remaining Scopes for Collective Management of Copyright in the Online World
Remaining Scopes for Collective Management of Copyright in the Online World in: Kung-Chung Liu, Reto M. Hilty (
Remaining Scopes for Collective Management of Copyright in the Online World in: Kung-Chung Liu, Reto M. Hilty (
The online world seems to enable creators and other rights holders to know who the users of their works are as well as to control their use. This may involve a shift of the role of collective management organizations towards a decrease of their scope of activity. This chapter defines collective management of copyright as it developed until today, and questions the decrease of the role of collective management of copyright considering the current developments.